While the wicked preyed upon innocents in a horrific attack in Las Vegas, brave American sheepdogs showed their nation our very best. The very next day, in a striking contrast to the bravery and courage under fire from Las Vegas, social justice “warriors” in the NFL flipped America off.

People tend to freeze during an attack, when the unthinkable happens. For some, beginning to move happens quickly, while others will remain paralyzed by fear.

Sheepdogs on that field in Las Vegas selflessly stepped up to help their fellow Americans in time of need. These courageous men and women helped others move to safety, preventing further injuries. While bullets ricocheted off the ground, these sheepdogs moved the wounded out of the line of fire and tried to stop the bleeding, saving lives.

Recall the picture of a man atop a wounded woman. He helped her to safety, then went back and saved another person’s life using his belt as a tourniquet as bullets hit flesh and pavement around him. Later, he stuck his finger into the bullet wound of a third person to save another life.

And the truth is that, as seen in places like Houston and Florida after natural disasters, America has no shortage of these courageous men and women.

Unfortunately, in a nation of over 300 million, we can’t all be heroes.

The very next day, instead of coming together as America mourned, well-paid NFL players continued their protests against our flag, our soldiers, and our nation during our national anthem. In fact, at least one player literally showed his ass to the flag during the anthem on Monday Night Football.

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The NFL has some internal and external bad-actors intentionally trying to wreck our Nation’s pasttime. This is just another example of the _____ [just recently promised GOD that I would try very hard to watch my language because nothing spreads faster than bad language] (D) coopting something ‘good’ to drive out the holders of the thing and to occupy what’s left. It is total Saul Alinsky Rules for Radicals garbage. And the purveyors of it need to come to violence (1/2 day beating with a wet flip-flop).

John Boch lies that NFL players are protesting “… against our flag, our soldiers, and our nation…”, just an absurd lie. What sane American would protest against the American flag, American soldiers, and America itself? Why would anyone invent such a stupid obviously false lie? Is John Bloch developmentally disabled like most of yall here?

Also I’m confused about whose flag and soldiers and nation Boch thinks it is, he says not “the” but “our” as if the flag and soldiers and the very nation itself somehow belong only to Boch and his ignorant acolytes here but not to the NFL players protesting…

So can any of you lying ignoramuses tell me what those NFL players are actually protesting?

And can you explain where you got this totalitarian idea that the flag and soldiers and nation itself belongs to dimwitted gun nuts like yall?

Don’t bet on it. Tickets are fully sold out for the season in most stadiums, so the NFL has the money whether fans show up or not. TV rights are also sold for the next 2-3 years depending on the network, so again, even if there was a massive decline in viewership, it would not financially impact the NFL for a while.

Licensed merchandise is the only real avenue to directly impact the NFL and I question even how much of an impact this will have.

The league could certainly do something about it, but they know that the vast majority of football fans wouldn’t know what to do on Sunday if they didn’t have a game to watch. The league is counting on this and will simply sit tight and wait for the next big deal that people can get worked up about.

Youre right, yall are too ignorant to do anything but grunt and fart like gorillas in front of the TV on Sunday, never read a serious article or book, listened to any real music, had anything approaching an original thought, immersed yourself in a painting, attended a reading… nor have you ever taken a stand in solidarity with any movement for social justice, you dont have the balls to go to a game and take a knee in the stands to show your opposition to the police disproportionately shooting unarmed black folks… and then theres the teeny weeny issue of your being a racist and not caring about other folks so…

By the way racist buttwipes Black Lives Matter just won the Sydney Peace Prize for its constructive work involving the police disproportionately shooting unarmed black folks, and Australia is one of the most racist countries on earth even worse than America if you can imagine that… so if BLM can win a well-deserved award there maybe you even you silly racist buttwipes will one day acknowledge that racism is real and that its indisputably documented that racism in America disadvantages black folks in every aspect of life, and that some decent and courageous NFL players are doing there part to raise awareness of racism in policing.

Yall should get on your knees and thank these players and BLM generally : D

By the way, the demonstrably racist Black Lies Matter actually just won a completely meaningless and irrelevant award from a place that is for a fact also equally irrelevant that it didn’t and will never deserve, regardless. When their members, from the very lowest base to the highest echelons of organization loudly, proudly, and publicly call for the indiscriminate slaughter of police and white people, they’re not doing anyone any favors and they have no room or even any right to lecture anyone about anything under the Sun. And, so it goes, neither do you. Maybe racist toolbags like you can quit projecting for five seconds and actually acknowledge that, in this day and age, racism cuts both ways and is primarily coming to the majority from the minority and not the other way around.

You should get on your knees yourself and stop worshiping over-privileged know-nothings and actually learn to think for yourself.

By the way I give yall racists all the credit, you managed to talk about NFL players taking a knee in solidarity with BLM work to address police disproportionately shooting unarmed black folks without once mentioning racism generally or the specific issue of racism in policing, you lied that the NFL players are protesting the flag/military/entire country, and you segued into boycotting the NFL for failing to squash to dissent: youve certainly learned your lessons well from am radio and Fox on how to simple ignore and lie and change the topic whenever an issue like racism is raised that you simply will not tolerate being discussed : D You remain the worst of America…

By the way, the only racist here is you and you’re only capable of psychologically projecting your own bigotry onto everyone else here. You lied that the NFL players aren’t also protesting the flag itself, the military, and the entirety of the country. You’ve certainly learned your own lessons well from Clinton’s News Network on how to project and lie and turn literally everything into a discussion about racism. You yourself still remain and have always ever been the very worst of America.

I’d there any channel we can go to watch live 3-Gun? That might pick up a few ratings (especially if it coincided with an NFL game), and i absolutely DARE any of the competitors to refuse to honor the flag there.

Hilarious post Stone Mountain man, and its true that your mentality was that of “real Americans” back in Georgia in 1915 when your ilk resurrected the Klan, and as late at the middle 1960s when “real Americans” enforced racial terror with Southern-style Apartheid, but your good ole days gone boy, long gone… so enjoy this retrograde backlash to yalls having to see a black face on the president for eight long years, who knows maybe youll even live to see a few more racist backlashes, but understand that despite these vicissitudes the long arc of the moral universe continues to bend toward justice and so each time disgusting folks like you who you risibly term “real Americans” become fewer and fewer and increasingly marginalized… hurry up and die off dinosaur! : D

Sorry, but it was actually you Dumbass-O-KKKrats on the left that not only revived the Klan but turned it into the “Silent Empire” throughout the Antebellum South. That is until Republican litigators — and at the time it was only Republican DAs and AGs that were even doing this — physically put their lives on the lines to break their social and political power in the 1980s. Sorry, Junior, but your good ole’ days are long gone — and good riddance to them, and inevitably you. So, enjoy this short-lived and dim “back-lash” while it lasts, and watch it fade back to nothing once the reality sets in that literally no one takes you seriously outside the still-shrinking circles of the dying legacy media whose only function is keep the divide alive and very, very deep. The only racist backlashes to be seen are yours in the first place, and each time you disgusting folks set about burning your cities down you will become further and further marginalized and fewer in number yourselves. Good riddance to the whole damned lot of you.

Stone Mountain man gives us his version of “niggras are inherently criminal”! And why? Well because one of his many racist subscriptions sent him an email that says there are nearly 900 convicted felons playing NFL ball and since this accords with his racist delusions and since he is a moron he imbibes and regurgitates with nonsense without corroborating it.

And naturally it turns out the email this moron treats like a gospel is more racist lies, it turns out that it is indisputably documented that NFL players are not overrepresented among felons compared to the general population, and in fact NFL players have a lower arrest rate than the general population. And like the posts here this racist email that Stone Mountain has embraced is riddled with false claims ie the overwhelming number of arrests cited are in fact misdemeanors, most of the players cited are no longer in the NFL, and the number of players per team is misstated so the math is wrong etc

This is the typical go to retort of y’all racists, whenever the issue of indisputably documented reality of police disproportionately shooting unarmed black folks is broached y’all reflexively blurt “niggras are criminals”. Your racist favorite is to talk about “niggras killing niggras” whenever BLM good work is discussed. So when NFL players protest police disproportionately shooting unarmed black folks a reasonable response in your racist mind is “niggras are criminals”. When BLM constructively works on the issue of police disproportionately shooting unarmed black folks it makes sense in your racist mind to respond “niggras are criminals”.

You dimwits dont realize how bizarre your response sounds to folks who are not as ignorant and racist as yall. Its on par with saying “niggras are lazy” when the indisputably documented reality of racism in employment is raised, or “niggras are dumb” when the indisputably documented of racism in the education system is raised… its pathetic and transparent… in other words thanks for unknowingly revealing how racist and dishonest and unoriginal you are : D

This culture war the left is waging certainly does impact gun ownership and gun rights. In fact, just look at the Left waging jihad on our gun rights both nationally and closer to home for me in Illinois. The same may be happening in your state as well.

Oddly enough, I am a gun-owning, pro-RKBA liberal that supports “taking the knee”. This has nothing to do with guns and all to do with rightwing nuttery. But I guess Bob Farago needs the clicks so he’s catering to the “deplorables”.

Yes, yes and yes. Completely agree with this column! Thank you Mr Boch for putting your thoughts down on “paper”! While feckless politicians cry and whine their way through the day, fearless everyday Americans put themselves in harms way to save and defend perfect strangers in many cases. Purebred American sheepdogs jump into action with virtually no regard for their own well being as the bullets fly. Keep in mind that these sheepdogs had no idea what was going on, if there were several shooters or what was coming next yet, they leap into action without hesitation. No ambulance handy? No problem, they improvise a solution and “borrow” a truck. No tourniquet handy? No problem, they adapt and fashion a life saving tourniquet out of a belt. No cover handy for wounded or helpless innocents? No problem, they overcome by using their own bodies to shield them, even if that means they get shot.

Meanwhile, overpaid, pampered athletes who sacrifice nothing and stand for nothing, sit, kneel and show their backsides to our flag, anthem and Country while getting paid millions.

It is about presumed, unsubstantiated, and EXPLOITED racial injustice. Tell me again how athletes earning millions of dollars every year to play a game are somehow being discriminated against? And if they see what they perceive to be racial injustice then they need to work to correct that on their own time, off the field. I can’t hang political slogans on my truck while I’m driving (although when I was an owner/op I did have some subversive Obama mud flaps, but that’s another story), I cannot yell epithets at our customers who offend my political views, and I fer damn sure can’t show them my ass.

But when I’m not at work I can do as I damn please and support the politics I believe in.

These guys need to start being punished according to NFL rules and barred from a game or two for disrespecting the flag and the anthem. We’ll see how much they are willing to support their political convictions (as opposed to their legal convictions) when their bank accounts start shrinking by 7 figures a week.

They’re sticking up for lies. The number of unarmed black men killed by police is less than 20 a year about the same as unarmed white men. The myth that unarmed equals harmless. If they actually gave a damn they would rail against the number of unarmed black men killed every year by other black men.

You must understand. Most people in this country have been indoctrinated since day 1 of their lives that they must worship and revere the state, its’ military and the people who “serve” in that military.

This makes it palatable for people to willingly be stolen from in the form of taxes so that it can fund illegal foreign wars and campaigns and make a few crony companies a lot of money.

Young men and women die. It’s disgusting. It’s not protecting our “freedoms” or “spreading democracy”.

But alas, now I’ve profaned and blasphemed the gospel of the USA and now, according to most of the proselytes I’m deserving of death.

There may be exceptions that I’ve overlooked, but I’m aware of only two countries that have elected minority candidates to their highest elected office — the US (Obama) and Peru (Alberto Fujimori). Oddly enough, both were totally corrupt.

There have been other minority leaders, such as Stalin who was Georgian, and Hitler who was Austrian (and spoke with a monster Austrian accent), but they weren’t elected.

Female leaders do not qualify for the “minority” label since they constitute a majority in most countries.

Kerry, it doesn’t matter what you think it’s about. They are employees on the clock, wearing their employer’s uniform, making a political statement in a very public way. If I was their employer, I would not tolerate it.

They can make their political statements on their own time, in their own clothes, and see if any broadcast networks show up with cameras.

If it’s not about the flag, why do they do it during the anthem?
Why not immediately after they go to their side of the field? Or after the anthem?
When you do it during the anthem, it’s about the flag, because you made it about the flag.

This Sunday I am having my own protest AGAINST the “National Felon League”. I am taking my children and their Aunts, Uncles and cousins to the range for the day. Hopefully, they will come away with a memory no NFL game can surpass. It usually does, because they always ask when can we go again.

The contrast between the real heroes and the fake heroes is stark. I would rather wear a shirt with the name of one of the brave men in Vegas that night than the Milli Vanilli pretenders prancing about in the NFL.

I’m not sure how to go about it but what would really hurt the NFL is if somehow all these municipalities, some local, some state level, would default on debt service payments for these stadiums we gave them. Exactly how to encourage elected officials to make that happen I don’t know. But one thing is for sure, it is time taxpayer financing of NFL stadiums came to an end.

These ungrateful bastards need to learn respect for a nation that has basically given them over $6.7 billion over the last 20 years.

I spent last Sunday loading some 30-06 for hunting season, it’s really not that hard to find a better pastime. F the NFL.

30-06 one of my favorite s, what are you hunting? Deer season is just around the corner, I’m getting itchy. I’m going to use my revolver again, I’d like to use the 1911,( just to see) but it’s not legal here.

Sheepdog is a go to honorific for soldiers and police officers because they theoretically protect us from the “wolves,” but they failed to stop this particular wolf in anything remotely resembling a timely manner. The police response aside from helping the injured was woefully insufficient.

Last Thursday there were numerous get togethers around town for THURSDAY night football. The nfl is still laughing to the bank. And don’t forget one very important thing here the players are the stars so have your tantrum but make sure your fantasy team is ready by Sunday.

So were are attacking NFL players for protesting police brutality, disparate outcomes for minorities in the criminal justice system, etc. because some good people did some good things during a horrific event that the police failed to stop in a timely manner and for which we are criticizing the police and other security personnel on this blog in other posts on this very day? Seems pretty silly to me. The two events aren’t related. The NFL protests aren’t about gun rights or really about guns, so they don’t have much a place on this blog in my mind.

Regardless, I don’t have any interest in condemning people for exercising their freedom of speech, especially in such a benign way. Since they are doing it at work, their employers can tell them to stop if they want. But it affects me not at all.

Blacks protesting social injustice at sporting events is really nothing new and History has proven them right time and time again. The average flag waving brain washed Jethro Bodine cannot see the forest for the trees as its only a matter of time when more and more White People will start getting executed by mad dog cops as well but they cannot see it coming.

The U.S. since the end of WWII has become (“The New Nazi’s) as the Military Industrial Complex has waged constant wars of rape, pillage and conquest. Only recently we bombed 6 different countries in 1 day. That’s an all time record that even would have made Hitler envious but of course he would have approved of it whole heartedly.

The Conservative is his own worst enemy. When “he should” trust the Government as when it wants to educated his children at no cost to him or give him health coverage at no cost or better wages or retirement he is unwilling to work with the government to make this possible but when “he should not” trust the Government as when it brainwashes him and appeals to his racism and xenophobia and tribalism so he can be used for cannon fodder to fight wars that make the super rich more wealthy and powerful he can hardly wait “to shoot that thar big rifle gun” and kill lots of them thar foreign devils that want to take his guns and his religion. Very few of any of these Hillbilly Morons realize that flags and patriotic songs are used by all governments as nothing more than brainwashing tools to appeal to his most primitive instincts and like a fool he falls for it every single time learning nothing from the debacle of previous wars that were unnecessary and cost him billions in tax dollars and achieved nothing but to bankrupt the Nation and leave no money left over for social programs. As Herr Drumpf once said long before he ran for President, “These Morons are so stupid you can tell them anything and they will believe it”. Hitler knew it too and both men used the same racism to get into power and just as Hitler ended up destroying himself along with Germany so to History is repeating itself with Herr Drumpf, only this time if its nuclear war it just may be the last time the xenophobes march off to war with idiotic patriotic songs on their lips.

The two most divisive and unnecessary wars were the Revolutionary War and the Civil War with Vietnam being a distant third as only the uneducated lower working class was dumb enough to let themselves get drafted only to find out way too late what victims and suckers they really were.

Yes the Government is absolutely paranoid that we should one day no longer salute the flag or sing patriotic songs as then they know the “jig would be up” and no longer will they be able to get fools to do their dirty work for them and go off to war with head held high, flags waving and with patriotic songs on their lips. Darwinism might then just then become extinct.

But in the meantime our streets run rivers of blood as Minorities get murdered by cop every day and the Hillbilly says “who cares” just as long as the Sadist Cops aren’t killing too many of us White People we could not care less. Chilling but oh so true as the German People knew damn well what was happening to the Jews and they too said “who cares its not us” until of course one day it was their turn.

Reading comprehension Jethro, reading comprehension. I have never supported disarmament but only reasonable vetting of gun purchases like all other civilized nations have done for decades. There are plenty of guns in Germany which has stringent training and vetting requirements and last night MSNBC re-ran an example I have given many times and that is that it is a totally myth that the Japanese are disarmed as well as it showed an American who owns both rifle and shotgun in Japan but was properly vetted before he purchased them.

Your idea of basic human rights is warped beyond all logic. No you do not have the right to let criminals walk in and take your guns because you did not store them in a safe and no your basic human rights do not include letting children blow their heads off because you left loaded guns laying around the house and no your basic human rights do not include selling second hand guns that end up in the hands of criminals and nut cases.

Basic human rights do not include the right to act so irresponsible that you end up living in an uncivilized society that is in the process of destroying itself as is the case today in the U.S. The mass shootings as a way of life alone prove that beyond any doubt.

PGA Golf players are not drafted, they have to play the golf circuit. Once they can preform great then and only then they can play in the PGA. These guys play some games for the contry only, no pay. (President Cup and Ryder cup). At the end of 18 holes they always shake hands. They play the course and not really each other, enough said. I shut down NFL and now watch PGA.

Hey Cisco,
After you disarm this country by disarming our so called evil military, how do you plan to stop China from owning the West Coast?

Whether the call is to destroy our evil military/industrial complex or disarm our evil nuclear stockpile the call is always the same. Disarm US. But what about the other guy? Where is the call to disarm THEM TOO?

We spend too much money on the military that should have gone to social programs? Pick up your copy of the Constitution and show me the part about the govt. being responsible for the national defense. It’s in there. But what isn’t in there is any duty of govt. to provide even one single social program or charity. What it says is that anything not spelled out specifically as a power of the federal govt. IS NOT a power of the govt but is the business of the states or of the people. And you want to eliminate spending on what is the FIRST duty of the govt. and spend it instead on the social gravy train of charity that is not a Constitutional duty of the govt.?

The Revolution was an evil war fought by fools and suckers? Divisive? Unnecessary?

Reading comprehension? I have read and I comprehend that you are the last person who should be in charge of anything of importance in this country.